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Guardian v WikiLeaks.Guardian writer David Leigh — point man on that paper’s increasingly furious triple backflip on Julian Assange — added another achievement to his illustrious career when he created his own Twitter meme overnight. Debating whistleblowing via Twitter, the unctuous Leigh (@davidleigh3) produced a tweet remarkable even by social media’s self-obsessed standards, declaring “I like to think that if someone like #bradleymanning had first dealt with me at the #guardian, he wouldn’t now be in jail”.

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